Quotes by Savages I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us. Samuel de Champlain savages men people When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of. Samuel Richardson savages human-nature animal Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. Samuel Johnson savages men children It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. Samuel Johnson savages elegance men I have heard about the civilized, Sharon Olds i-love-you savages running Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. Shirley Jackson disrespectful savages children The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure. Sigmund Freud savages ego enemy Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide. Stanislaw Lem savages humorous suicide An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious. Susan Sontag savages important jobs Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery. Tanith Lee savages deeds desire Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage. Terry Eagleton savages scratches The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages. Theodore Roosevelt siberia savages war Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it. Thomas Harris savages hunting fierce Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? Thomas Carlyle savages men civilization There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. Thomas Huxley without-god savages ghost I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris]. Thomas Jefferson savages independence paris But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages. Vine Deloria Jr. savages ignorant improvement Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. Voltaire savages imagination play All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Voltaire savages reading book For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another. Walter Cronkite savages calling years «23456789101112»